If the way Pretty Girls submerges you in a grim underworld—Claire uncovering Paul’s monstrous secrets, those chilling videos, and the suffocating dread—had you riveted, you’ll be hooked by Flynn’s debut. Camille Preaker returns to a toxic hometown to report on murdered girls, only to be dragged into a vortex of self-harm, manipulation, and twisted family dynamics with Adora and Amma. It’s the same pitch-black atmosphere and nerve-fraying intimacy, delivered with razor precision.

If you couldn’t look away from the brutal captivity ring and the snuff footage Claire and Lydia uncover in Pretty Girls, Hayder’s case will test your limits in exactly that way. DI Jack Caffery hunts a child abductor whose methods are horrifyingly specific and vividly rendered. Like Slaughter, Hayder refuses to blink, pushing you through evidence rooms, autopsies, and scenes that echo the visceral shocks you remember from Paul’s hidden life.

If you liked how Pretty Girls shifts between Claire and Lydia—and even Sam’s letters—to peel back a family’s long-buried horrors, you’ll love how Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander tag-team the Vanger mystery. Old photos, sealed records, and a missing girl thread into corporate rot and generational abuse, echoing the layered revelations about Julia and Paul’s double life. The alternating viewpoints ratchet tension as every new piece of evidence reframes what you think you know.

If the whiplash of discovering Paul’s secret empire and the predator network in Pretty Girls thrilled you, Swanson’s thriller delivers that same jolt—repeatedly. A chance airport-bar confession sparks a murder pact, but shifting narrators and buried histories keep exploding the story you think you’re reading. Each reveal lands like the moment Claire realizes who she’s really married to: destabilizing, audacious, and darkly satisfying.

If what stayed with you in Pretty Girls was Claire and Lydia clawing their way back to each other while facing the truth about Julia and Paul, Burke’s novel hits that chord. After Adam is murdered, Chloe and Nicky—sisters with a bitter past—must close ranks to protect a family and untangle secrets that could destroy them. The wary reconciliation, the private betrayals, and the way shared danger forges a bond mirror the emotional core you cared about.